Pipe attachment for steam looms



July 3, 1923.

O. F. M ENANEY PIPE ATTACHMENT FOR STEAM LODM'S Filed May 1'7. 1922 attend;

791332 n r rn nninnr Application filed .lIay 1'7,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, OWEN IVLTOENANF- a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and use tul Pipe Attaclnnent for Steam Looms, of which the following is a specification.

The object or" my invention is to provide novel means for moistening artificial fiber silk before it is woven into cloth and used for dress goods, whereby a finer cloth can be produced and the machines can be run faster and more production obtained. 1 attain these and other objects of my invention by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention applied to a loom;

Fig. 2 is a detail side elevation of the thread moistening devi e; and

Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal of same.

Like numerals indicate like parts of the several views.

Referring to the accompanyin drawings, 1 indicates the main frame or ase of the loom. The threads 5 are unwound from bobbins 2 and travel through the wire guides 3 and thence through the moistening devices 8 to the weaving mechanism 1 of the loom. i provide a suitable steam pipe 6 through which steam is deliveredthrough the auxiliary pipe 7 and thence through the steam inlet 13 into the steam chamber 12 of the moistening device 8, of which there may be any suitable number.

Moistening devices 8 consist 01 an outer cylindrical wall 9 an inner spaced cylindrical wall 10, and cap members 11., thereby forming the steam chamber into which steam is supplied directly from steam inlet 13, which is threaded at 1 and attached the steam auxiliary pipes 7. Mounted in each end oi moistening devices 8 are porcelain plugs 17 having a longitudinal channel 18. in each through which the thread 503E the fiber silk passes. the smooth surface the porcelain preventing any injury to the thread. inner wall 10 is provided with openings 15 to admit steam into the central section in each .funnel positioned roe s'rnnrr acorns.

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chamber 16 and moisten the fiber sillr thread which is continuously traveling through that chamber.

v i. q .1. provide a discharge spout 1. opening ried away through the pipes 21 which are in co-mmunicaftion with tunnels 20, as shown in Fig. 1.

The operation of the invention may be parent from the foregoing description accompanying drawings.

Any suitable number of the moistening devices 8 are arranged around the main frame of the loom. The threads are fed from the bobbins 2 through the wire guides 3 and through the moistening devices 8. The steam which enters chamber 12 pipe 7 and inlet 13 percolates irough the opening 15 into the inner stem chamber 16 through which the fiber sillr reads 5 are continuously traveling in path to the Weaving mechanism of the loom. Th moistoning of the fibers by the steam before the fibers are woven into the cloth results in an improvement in the quality of the cloth and makes it possible to run the machines faster and therefore get more production than would otherwise be possible.

- What ll claim is:

1. in an attachment for looms, a thread moistening device consisting of cylindrical shell, an inlet opening into said shell for the admission of steam, an inner cylindrical shell, said shell having openings in its wall, thread-guiding elements secured to the of said shell, and a drain spout opening out of the outer shell.

2. In combination with the apparatus described in claim 1 steam pipes which the inlet is detachably secured for supplying steam to the thread-moistenin' device.

8. in combination with t .9 device scribed in claim 1, steam pipes to which inlet is detachably secured for vsuppiyiin steam to the thread-moisten device spout of the moistening device, and a drain pipe to which said funnel is attached.

4. In a thread-moistening device of the class described, a hollow chamber having 'spaced walls to form an inner and outer chamber, perforations in the inner Wall to admit steam from the outer into the inner chamber, a steam inlet opening into the outer chamber, a discharge spout opening out of the bottom ortion of the outer chamber, 10

channeled th sad-guiding elements of suitable smooth surfaced material mounted in opposite ends of the inner chamber to guide the thread therethrough, and steam pipes to which the device is attached and supplying M steam to same.

OWEN F. MCENANEY. 

